Pakistan immigrant's name in blacklist: LHC seeks reply from DG Immigration and Passports

The Lahore High Court (LHC) summoned on Friday a senior official of Monitoring and Evaluation Office of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in person and sought a reply from the Director General of Immigration and Passports on a petition filed by a Pakistani immigrant in Italy for placing his name in blacklist instead of a proclaimed offender.
Justice Shujat Ali Khan passed the order on the petition filed by Muhammad Aslam, presently residing in Italy, through his counsel Advocate Ch Shoaib Saleem. The lawyer argued before the court that the petitioner had applied online renewal of his passport after it expired in March 2017 but despite the passage of over one and half-an-year Aslam could not get his passport renewed.
The petitioner added that he repeatedly visited the passport and immigration office in Islamabad but no avail. As a last resort, he hired some agent to get the status of his application for renewal of passport who brought him a letter which was written to the FIA Lahore office for a second time by the office of Immigration and Passports Islamabad.
Through this letter, the petitioner came to know that he has been blacklisted on the basis of information emailed by the FIA Lahore office to the DG immigration and Passports. The counsel further argued that to the utter surprise of his client, the FIA provided information of a proclaimed offender who happened to carry same name as that of the petitioner, Muhammad Aslam, and mentioned petitioner's parentage and CNIC number instead of the actual accused. The petitioner added that he was blacklisted due to connivance between the actual accused Muhammad Aslam, PO and resident of his village in Gujrat, and the FIA officials just to extort money from him.